ePMO at Ministry Health: Setting Up your Project Workplan for Success

Jodie Gardner, Manager, ePMO Quality and Process, Ministry Health, and John Kocon, Vice President, Enterprise Program Management Office, Catholic Health Initiatives (moderator). Ministry Health Care, an Ascension Health Ministry, utilizes MS Project Server 2013 in their ePMO (Enterprise Project Management Office).  To help our Project Managers validate that their Project workplans were set up correctly, […]

Assembling the Analytics Team for Population Health at Atrius Health

Joe Kimura, MD, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Atrius Health. With renewed attention on optimizing healthcare value as defined by cost, quality, access, and patient experience, the roles of population management, case & case management, systems & operations management, and utilization management are front and center for organizations looking to assume clinical and financial accountability for […]

IT Value Measurement at Ascension

Gerry Lewis, VP IT Strategy and Business Development, Ascension Health.  As one of the most effective management tools to communicate the value of IT, Ascension Information Services (AIS) has developed the IT Value Scorecard to demonstrate the value IT provides at both the Health Ministry and Ascension levels. Gerry discusses the results of past efforts […]

Comprehensive Sedation Management at Banner Health: IT Solutions

Nancy Zismann, RN, BSN, MSOL, Sr RN Director Clinical Director Clinical Performance, and Mikaela Mackey, MBA, MSL, BSIE, SSBB, Senior Director Clinical Performance Assessment and Improvement, Banner Health. Delirium is an acute organ dysfunction of the brain. Banner Health designed technology to support delirium evidence-based clinical practices, such as the Spontaneous Awakening Trial and Spontaneous […]

IT Service Delivery Model Redesign and Process Maturation at Ascension

Jason "JD" Duigou, Director, Information Technology Service Management, Ascension Information Services. Join JD as he shares Ascension's journey in establishing an IT Service Management office and service delivery processes.  Ascension began focusing on redesigning their service delivery model in 2013 as part of a five-year program.  JD relates successes and challenges experienced along the way, […]

KLAS on EMR Market Share

Coray Tate, VP Clinical Research, and Chris Brown, Research Director, KLAS. Join industry experts Coray and Chris as they discuss the small, large and global EMR market landscapes and what is fueling that growth. You will learn who is growing market share and who is shrinking, what is fueling these changes, and when is a […]

CHRISTUS Health Improves Revenue Cycle through Electronic Solutions

George Conklin, CIO and SVP, CHRISTUS Health, and Gwendolyn Lohse, Deputy Director and Managing Director, CORE CAQH, the HHS designated author for the ACA operating rules.  George and Gwendolyn describe how operating rules are improving administrative transactions, gaining stakeholder involvement, and highlighting the long-term need to integrate clinical and administrative data.

Reducing Readmissions at Henry Ford Health System

Susan Craft, Director, Care Coordination Initiatives, Henry Ford Health System. Reduction in readmissions continues to be a challenge for many organizations around the country with unique obstacles for hospitals in urban areas caring for a large underserved patient population. Henry Ford Hospital received the full 1% CMS penalty in 2012 but has since significantly reduced […]

Readmissions Reduction Tool at Adventist Health

Loran D. Hauck, MD, Senior VP, CMO, Office of Clinical Effectiveness, and Christine Sammer, DrPH, RN, Director, Quality and Patient Safety, Office of Clinical Effectiveness, Adventist Health System. Adventist began the Readmissions Reduction journey in 2009.  In 2013 they added the position of Transition of Care Coordinator and partnered with Cerner to develop the Readmission […]

Cedars-Sinai Clinical Data Hub

Ray Duncan, MD, CTO, Cedars-Sinai Health System. Dr. Duncan describes Cedars-Sinai's Clinical Data Hub, a web-based, user-friendly self-service tool for cohort selection based on both patient demographics and clinical characteristics. It supports both research (delivering scrubbed data) and operational (PHI visible) roles. Unique features include similarity searching, integration with the enterprise MPI, and extraction of […]

Online Access to Doctor Notes at Columbia St. Marys

Bruce McCarthy, MD, MPH, President Physician Division, Columbia St. Mary's, Ascension Health, discusses the CSMConnect patient portal that gives 300,000 patients secure online access to view summaries of their visits, send secure messages to their clinic providers, schedule appointments, pay bills, get lab results, view medication lists, and more. The functionality has been expanded beyond […]

Mergers and Acquisitions: Convergence and Synergies

Mitch Morris, MD, National Health Care Sector Leader, and Carol Chouinard, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLC, discuss how mergers and acquisitions have and will continue to shape the US healthcare landscape.  This teleconference explores industry trends in market forces, recent mergers and acquisitions examples, and key information technology considerations.  The session also seeks to answer the […]

Stop the Bleeding: An Innovative Solution to Bring Employees Back In-Network

Shannon Eubank, Product Manager, Truven Health Analytics, discusses the millions of dollars that health systems are losing when employees choose out-of-network providers - and what you can do about it. In this session, she reviews how one large health system created a customized steering tool to replace an outdated system and inconsistent data-updating processes. The […]

Evaluating Population Health Management Systems

Dale Sanders, SVP, Health Catalyst. Dale provides an overview of his 12 criteria that health systems can use to evaluate vendors who offer population health management systems.  The criteria can also be used by organizations to plot a strategy for population health.  One of the core messages in this presentation is that no single vendor […]

Imaging Informatics: Transition from Radiology to the Enterprise at Scottsdale Healthcare

James Whitfill, MD, CMO, Scottsdale Health Partners:  Imaging, once a radiology function for image capture, storage and display, is evolving to the Enterprise.  With this brings opportunity to extend image management technologies to other departments, and to apply IT processes like SOA and IT Service Management to PACS, and image enable the EMR.  Dr. Whitfill […]